by Jack Hoehn | 12 September 2024 | What are the politics of conscience? On the sidewalk outside of your church, have you heard things like this? “Surely every Seventh-day Adventist must vote in favor of life? How can we do anything but hold our noses and vote for politicians we may not like—but who […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 8 November 2023 | The song written by Pete Seeger, and sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary, “Where have all the flowers gone?” came to my mind as I listened to the leadership of my church in North America discussing a pastor shortage. The number of retired pastors and those eligible […]
Adventist Today announces the first book it has published about missions or missionaries. LOVING YOU–I Went to Africa by Deanne Hoehn was released by Amazon.com October 16, 2023. The cover teases, “This is not a mission story, this is a missionary story. This story is true, but not a ‘history’–this is a ‘her-story!’ Lions, leopards, elephants, […]
by Hannele Ottschofscki | 25 April 2023 | We generally think of the Bible as a book written by men, about men, and for men. It is as if the church has tried to make women invisible in the Bible. And yet they exist—and not only as marginal figures and nameless persons. We need to […]
by Loren Seibold, November 6, 2015. I’ve been to a lot of church meetings. But there are none that compare to the marathon business sessions that happen at the Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters at 12501 Old Columbia Pike. They can be a bit of an ordeal: this latest one stretched over 8 days. Like all business […]
September 21, 2015: The Adventist national denominational organizations in parts of Europe have decided to discontinue the practice of clergy ordination altogether, in the wake of the vote against ordaining women pastors at the General Conference (GC) Session in July. Yesterday (September 20) the executive committee of the Norwegian Union Conference took this step. The […]